Some good news for the Paleo community – in a new study, the Paleo diet proved superior to the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (outdated low-fat dietary guidelines) in terms of greater improvements in weight, waistline and blood lipids (triglycerides).
- Professor Loren Cordain: Long Term Scientific Verification of the Paleo Diet
- EJCN: Long-term effects of a Palaeolithic-type diet in obese postmenopausal women: a 2-year randomized trial
The advantages were statistically significant after six months, but as always in diet studies the average differences decreases with time, as many people fall back into old habits. After two years the positive impact on blood lipids was still big enough that it was statistically significant. The low-fat diet, on the other hand, provided no benefits at all.
Now there are long-term studies (two or more years) showing that a low-fat diet is worse in many ways than an LCHF-similar diet, a higher-fat Mediterranean diet and the Paleo diet. Thus, it seems that our official dietary guidelines are worse for our long-term health than just about all sensible dietary recommendations.
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